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Edith Wilder (1875-1960), my great grandmother, was the daughter of Brig. General John Thomas Wilder (1830-1927) and Martha Jane Stewart (1837-1892). She married Arthur Hoyt Scott (1875-1927), one of the presidents of Scott Paper Company, and they had one child, Eleanor Wilder Scott(1902-1997) who married Philip Exton Guckes (1901-1964). She founded the Arthur Hoyt Scott Foundation at Swarthmore College for the teaching of horticulture by visual demonstration in honor of her husband.(See the arboretum at Swarthmore.)She also won several awards for horticulture.
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